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SOUTHEAST
HUNTER CHAPTER
2006 ANNUAL MEETING
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The
Breedshow Judges &
4 Apprentices evaluated 5 dogs:
Hektor vom Moorehaus
Gustl vom Moorehaus
Ilka vom Moorehaus
Ira vom Moorehaus
Abby vom Kleine Fluss |
The SEHC held it's 2006 Annual Meeting
& Auction in Hamilton, Georgia in February along with several other
events. This was the most well attended annual meeting for the chapter
with over 50 in attendance for the weekend long event, traveling from
every state in the chapter and as far as Virginia & Missouri. There were
SEVERAL new members present, who are preparing to take their pups
through their first test. All Chapter representatives were present as
well as 3 members of the GNA Board: Bryon Beaton & Ed Carney who are
members of the chapter, and also Jim Wion who served as a Breedshow and
Btr judge.
At the Business Meeting
the following items were voted on:
- Establish a committee
to pursue the establishment of a rabbit pen for the SEHC.
- The next chapter
annual meeting will be in February 2007. The Chapter
Vice-Chairman will head that committee.
- Set a 20/40 Blood
Tracking test for February 2007 on an alternate weekend
of the Chapter AM.
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Chapter Chairman, Glen Bridges, would
like to thank the following members for their efforts and sacrifice of
personal time to make the 2006 AM a success:
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And a
good time was had by all... |
- Ed Carney - organization
- Gary Fleming - Quail Hunts
- Rick Spivey - Cooking
- Jim Smith- Communication,
registration, and rabbits
- Tracie & Forrest Moore-
Organization, communications,
food preparation, training grounds and
facilities
- George Chesney - Auction
- Matt Oaks -Auctioneer and by
proclamation our annual fund raiser
- Matt Oaks & Jim Seeley for
seminar presentation
Glen and the SEHC Board would also
like to thank the general membership of the SEHC for making the effort
to turn out and support your chapter meeting. |
A
typical hunt with Ozzie involves
marking game in a field. This year,
I marked by sight and with the
addition of the Drahthaar I will be
able to fly off "points". I take
Ozzie out of his transport box and
attach a small radio tracker on him.
Ozzie will climb into the sky in
circles. Sometimes tight and
sometimes large circles a 1/4 of a
mile off. Once he gets to a good
height for the area and game we are
flying, I will wave him over head or
he will just come over head on his
own accord. We attempt to flush the
game and Ozzie will fold his wings
and stoop through the quarry while
delivering a debilitating blow. He
will pitch up and roll over and bind
to the quarry and he typically kills
the quarry by severing its spinal
cord. In classic falconry,
especially out west, the birds are
pointed first and the falcon is
released and follows the preceding
sequence and the game is flushed at
just the right moment. Falcons are
quite "versatile" themselves and
take game from sparrows to geese
from bugs to jackrabbits in a
variety of styles. 
